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Published: 2014-09-15 20:00:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 2983; Favourites: 174; Downloads: 0
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A do-whatever-I-want commission for kokachuThey just wanted something like my Entropy piece, so I just went at it, and figured Tda would be a good subject. Super fun! It's been a while since I did a piece like this so II3
This was a pay-what-you-like commission, which I'm now open for !
And you can also check out the desaturated pencil & white charcoal original here .
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This is amazingly gorgeous! It's wonderful to seem something akin to your Entropy piece again!
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Beautiful! Love the bronze tones of the image!
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Oooh thank you! :'D
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This is simply beautiful! I love how you can still get a hint of the original pencil sketch beneath the colours, yet it doesn't affect the brightness of the colours. How do you desaturate the pencil sketch by the way? I am a traditional artist trying to transition into digital art and your technique would work quite well with what I am trying to do since I am a digital noob at present
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Thank you! It's all a little unfortunately complicated truthfully coloring wise. Desaturating is easy enough at least. In photoshop go to image>adjustments>desaturate. Or you can use the hue/saturation tool to do it by hand. Sometimes this is nice if you want to retain just a little bit of color.
The coloring however is very... complicated and is very much on a piece by piece basis.
If you'd like to try colorizing pencil or another b&w medium this way, I'd recommend NOT using 'colorize' most of the time. I'd also recommend using several layers to achieve your color effect to get a nice saturation. This is always different for every piece I do, and it may be in your case too. You should definitely try out all the layer comps and see what they do and what works best for you!
But for example on this piece, I had a heck of a time getting her skintone correct without the digital color over contrasting everything, because the original pencil had to stand on its own and so I rendered it very dark. So I had five 'layers' to get the color right.
At the bottom was the pencil layer, I used the selective color tool to give the darks neutrals and whites some of their own color, cyans in the shadows, reds and yellows in the neutrals, and yellow in the whites.
Then there was the main brown color set on soft light at 100%. Above that was the same color set on lighten at 4% to take the edge off the contrast. Then above that was the same brown color set on multiply at 39% to give everything a more uniform contrast.
The very last layer was a warm yellow-brown tone set on overlay painted on the bright areas to give the highlights a more separate color from the darks.
That's about what I do for every separate color section. You may find a better way or a way you like best! But for me so far that's worked the most for real color saturation and not just that grayed out colorized look XD
It just leads to lots of layers LOL.
Hopefully that didn't scare you off digital transition. It's a fantastic medium and definitely my favorite. I highly recommend it! And photoshop is easy enough to get if you play around for a while and maybe check out tutorials to see what things do. So much awesomeness to be had!
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The desaturation thing is easy enough to understand but I guess the rest is up to time and experimentation > < Thank you so much for the break down of your work process!
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